02-07-2011, 09:12 PM
Charles, your hypothesis rings true, that Custer presented a threat to the corrupt Orville Grant, to the Manifest Destiny requiring demonization, was personally loathed by Benteen.
A threat was removed and a symbol (Maine, Alamo, Tonkin etc.) provided for popular mobilization a la WW II poster art.
Oswald was also multi-use, making a "communist" out of an intelligence operative, as Custer was changed from an adapting historio-political figure into a reactionary genocidist martyr.
In another vein, I am reminded of Target: Patton by Robert L. Wilcox positing the deuce and a quarter was steered into the Cadillac's path because we can't have a Patton-for-Senate campaign the following year.
So you believe the Gatling guns would have been effective--and in light of your correction of the false cavalry-centric enemy order of battle, it may have very well been All Quiet on the Eastern Montana Front.
You strike another blow against magic history.
A threat was removed and a symbol (Maine, Alamo, Tonkin etc.) provided for popular mobilization a la WW II poster art.
Oswald was also multi-use, making a "communist" out of an intelligence operative, as Custer was changed from an adapting historio-political figure into a reactionary genocidist martyr.
In another vein, I am reminded of Target: Patton by Robert L. Wilcox positing the deuce and a quarter was steered into the Cadillac's path because we can't have a Patton-for-Senate campaign the following year.
So you believe the Gatling guns would have been effective--and in light of your correction of the false cavalry-centric enemy order of battle, it may have very well been All Quiet on the Eastern Montana Front.
You strike another blow against magic history.